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Table 2 Alcohol AUDIT Scores at baseline and follow-up by sex

From: Patient perceptions of facilitators and barriers to reducing hazardous alcohol use among people living with HIV in East Africa

Variable

Female (n = 22); n (%), median/mean (min max)

Male (n = 38); n (%), median/mean

(min max)

N = 60; n (%), median/mean

(min max)

Initial alcohol AUDIT (mean)

17.4 (8, 33)

20.2 (8, 36)

19.2 (8, 36)

Follow-up alcohol AUDIT (mean)

10.2 (0, 37)

15.1 (0, 35)

13.3 (0, 37)

Alcohol consumption at follow-up

  Hazardous

11/42 (26.2)

31/42 (73.8)

42 (70.0)

  Decreased drinking level

2/11(18.2)

6/31 (19.4)

8 (19.0)

  Same drinking level

9/11 (81.8)

23/31 (74.2)

32 (76.2)

  Increased drinking level

0/11 (0)

2/31 (6.4)

2 (4.8%)

Non-hazardous

11/18 (61.1)

7/18 (38.9)

18 (30.0)

  Stopped completely

8/11 (72.7)

3/7 (42.9)

11/18 (61.1)

  Reduced

3/11 (27.3)

4/7 (57.1)

7/18 (38.9)